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A Day's Deerstalking: Cover Them Up Like the Babes in the Wood
Creator
Ronald Ruthven Leslie-MelvillePhotographer · 1835–1906
All works by this person →Ronald Leslie Melville, the eleventh Earl of Leven and Melville, was an aristocratic amateur photographer and member of the Amateur Photographic Association, to which he was elected in 1866. Well-known in London as head of an Anglo-American banking house and director of the Bank of England, he pursued photography simply as a pleasurable pastime. He produced theatrical *tableaux vivant* and genre p
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1860s
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- Scottish
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 04b0d63f-94e9-4902-8d6e-d993ab622af2
What the image shows
Two men are kneeling beside a deer in a grassy field.
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From the Getty Museum record
Two Caucasian men sit on a bed of grass next to the carcasses of two deer. One of them is holding an unidentifiable object, while the other is covering the carcasses with leaves.
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